On Wed, 31 May 2006 14:10:32 GMT, Kirk Is wrote:
So besides the difficulty in knowing calorie counts in social settings,
what are the gotchas of this sort of approach? Is calories in minus
calories burned a reasonable rule of thumb?

The gotcha is that it may not be easy to stick with it due to being
hungry. Otherwise, if you do stick with it, calorie counting (a form
of eating less) is the only guaranteed way to lose weight.

(Actually, it's similar to the approach I've successfully used once
befo daily weigh in, record that, and put an estimate of how "well" I
did in eating less.)

Make sure to use some sort of a filter (moving average) to filter out
daily fluctuations.

I would guess that one big bugaboo is your metabolism slowing down in
response, so that it becomes more and more difficult to eat few enough
calories to make a difference.

It is mostly bull****.

i